Vol. 1 The war years I Part 1: The Operations Division; December 1941 to June 1942 1. "All we need is ships!" 2. Bolero Part 2: From London to Gibraltar; June 1942 to November 1942 3. From sledgehammer to torch 4. Defining torch 5. Full blast for torch Vol. 2 The war years II Part 3: Lighting the Torch; November 1942 to December 1942 6. The landings and darlan 7. The race for tunis …
"This book provides an account of events in Japanese public affairs leading up to and beyond the war in the Pacific. The career of Hideki Tojo, premier of Japan at the time of Pearl Harbor, provides the background against which to reveal the relentless advance by the military toward full control of Japan and the hardening of the attitudes and fears of the people which made war with the Western …
The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1941-1945, was the greatest, most costly, and most brutal conflict on land in human history. It was arguably the single most decisive factor of the war and shaped the postwar world as we know it. In this magisterial work, Bellamy outlines the lead-up to the war, in which the fragile alliance between the …
Tells what was required of the British ships in various phases of the war, how they met them and the costs involved
Contains the top stories by the top combat correspondents of World War II from the soldier newspaper The stars and stripes, connected by bridging material by the editor.